AI Attacks, Fake Hires & the Phish That Fooled LastPass

A hacker didn't need a team of experts. They just needed to convince an AI chatbot they were a penetration tester. What followed was the systematic breach of ten Mexican government agencies, 150GB of stolen data, and records touching 195 million people — more than the entire population of Mexico. That's just one of the stories this week on The Awareness Angle — the weekly cyber news podcast that focuses on the human side of security.This week we also cover:The LastPass phishing campaign that doesn't ask for your password — it warns you someone else is stealing it, then harvests it anywayHow the TfL hack in 2024 actually affected 10 million people, despite "some customers" being the official line for over a yearThe Odido data breach that triggered AI-voiced compensation scams within days of the data going publicWhy Meta Ray-Ban glasses may have captured intimate moments that ended up reviewed by contractors in KenyaHow North Korea is using voice changers, Face Swap and AI-generated CVs to get hired by Western companiesA QR code phishing email so well crafted it uses your company logo and a unique code tied to your email addressTimestamps00:00:00 Intro00:01:01 Podcast Intro00:02:15 Breach of the Week – Star Citizen Data Breach00:06:28 Hackers Use Claude AI to Breach Mexican Government00:11:32 Fake LastPass Support Email Phishing Campaign00:17:33 TfL Hack Affected 10 Million People00:22:57 Odido Breach Triggers AI Scam Calls00:27:57 Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Contractor Review00:36:48 North Korea Using AI to Fake Job Interviews00:40:51 Phish of the Week – QR Code Unlogged Work Hours00:45:48 The Admin Password That Wasn't00:47:22 Free PDF Converters and the 637 Cookies You Didn't Agree To00:52:36 Dunning-Kruger and Why Users Click00:55:26 The PayPal Two-Step ScamMore informationhttps://riskycreative.comListen on the goSpotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7rwzcRsKrXbASFBfiXoCZ6Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awareness-angle-cyber-news-weekly/id1784126196Follow usLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@infosecantInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/riskycreativeYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@riskycreativeOur Intro and Outro Song © 16 by falling foreverhttps://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/